Meet WISE Group at WindEurope 2026 - WISE Group

The monitoring challenges shaping offshore wind

Offshore wind infrastructure operates in some of the most demanding environments on the planet. Foundations sit in energetic seas. Towers flex under constant loading. Floating platforms move with every wave and current. And the data needed to make good decisions about these assets — structural integrity, weather windows, equipment health, mooring behaviour — has to be reliable in exactly the conditions where reliability is hardest to achieve.

As the industry scales, these challenges only grow. Larger turbines, deeper water, harsher sites, and longer asset lifetimes all raise the bar for what monitoring systems need to deliver. Getting the right data, from the right sensors, processed by software that people actually trust — that is what makes the difference between reactive maintenance and confident decision-making.

What we bring to offshore wind

WISE Group has been solving offshore monitoring problems for over four decades, in some of the toughest marine environments in the world. That experience now serves a growing portfolio of offshore wind projects — from early-stage metocean campaigns through to lifetime asset monitoring.

Our monitoring systems for offshore wind include:

• Structural Health Monitoring (SHMS) — continuous monitoring of foundations, towers, and substations across the full asset lifetime. Understand how your structures are behaving, not just whether they are still standing.
• Environmental Monitoring (EMS) — accurate metocean data to support operations planning, weather windows, and project delivery. The data your teams rely on when deciding whether it is safe to work.
• Condition Monitoring (CMS) — early-warning monitoring of rotating equipment and critical machinery. Catch problems before they become unplanned downtime.
• Excursion Monitoring (RUP) — real-time movement and mooring excursion monitoring for floating wind platforms. Purpose-built for the unique challenges of floating structures.
• Helideck Monitoring (HMS) — CAP 437-compliant monitoring for safe helicopter operations on platforms, vessels, and offshore substations.
• CCTV and visual monitoring — robust surveillance for offshore and marine environments, including fixed, PTZ, and thermal imaging cameras engineered for extreme conditions.
• Sensors — from the AIM wave buoy for autonomous wave and current measurement to sea current profilers for water-column data.

We also provide dedicated instrumentation packages for specific offshore wind applications — whether you are operating service platforms, CTVs, SOVs, or managing a full wind farm development.

What ties all of this together is our in-house software. Our monitoring platforms — DADAS and Orbalux — are designed, built, and supported by the same team that engineers the hardware. That means one point of accountability, from sensor to screen.

Come and talk to us

We will be at Stand 9-D80, on the corner of the Norwegian Pavilion, at IFEMA Madrid from Tuesday 21 to Thursday 23 April.

This is not a product demo — it is an open invitation to sit down with our offshore wind team and talk through whatever you are working on. Whether you are planning the monitoring strategy for a new development, looking to improve data quality on assets already in the water, or trying to understand what is possible with the next generation of floating wind, we would love to hear about it.

The best monitoring solutions start with a real conversation about real challenges. Come and have one with us.

Stand 9-D80 · Norwegian Pavilion · IFEMA Madrid · 21–23 April 2026